The Arena

"The Arena" is an American television play broadcast live on April 9, 1956, as part of the CBS television series, Studio One. Written by Rod Serling and directed by Franklin Schaffner, the story concerns a young U.S. Senator who seeks to avenge his father's political downfall by destroying his father's rival. He threatens to reveal the rival's membership 25 years earlier in "The Vindicators", an organization that the government has now classified as subversive.